perfsonar development work

[Gijs Molenaar <>]

Guilherme Fernandes wrote:
> > Next to that, Maybe not the right pace to address this but I don't 
> > know where to do it else, fernandes; I noticed that the current RPM 
> > build scripts has some strange bugs/design flaws:
> >
> > - other packages installed in /home/perfsonar/webapps will also be 
> > put into the RPM you create
> > - Generating the packages from /home/perfsonar/webapps is a bad idea 
> > if this is also the installation path. I can't deploy my generated 
> > package now on the same machine, I need to (re)move the manually 
> > installed service before. I'm new to RPM building, but I've read that 
> > a sort of fakeroot option is available. Also, specifying owner  of 
> > the files can be done at package time. I think it is a way better 
> > idea to modify the script so you can build the RPM's with any user 
> > from any location. I'll try to do this manually and write out a 
> > procedure.
> You're right, this was the simpler and direct way to do it, we were 
> first aiming on having it working and tested (to validate the 
> installation of perfSONAR by packages for all the services). The 
> package builder is meant as a helper script to facilitate building, 
> being able to build and install the package in the same machine wasn't 
> a requirement at the time I wrote it. But having a fakeroot option is 
> a very good suggestion (specially since you wont need to do it with 
> the user perfsonar and have the /home/perfsonar directory fixed).
>
> If you do write the procedure let me know, I'll try to look into this 
> anyways when I get the chance.
Did you know about crust/rust?

http://rust.sourceforge.net/

It looks quite easy to use, and supports chroot. Don't know yet how it 
handles permissions and pre- post tasks like modifying config files and 
creating symlinks, but interesting to have a look at.

We are currently using maven to manage our code tree of the plugin and I 
noticed there is a maven plugin to automatically create RPM's. i'll have 
a look at this too.

http://mojo.codehaus.org/rpm-maven-plugin/

Ok, I'm leaving now, I will continue investigating next week.

- gijs